On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 23:30, Jesús Couto <jesus.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lets say that for several administrative/burocratic/procedural reasons, you
> dont have the option of running puppet as root, in any way - not as a daemon
> on the managed node, nor as root on the command line with puppet apply. Say,
> you are the "middleware" application team and you dont have the rights to
> touch any part of the server that are not your apache/tomcat/whatever
> instances, so you run puppet under your "middleware" account(s)
>
> Do you think there is still value to be obtained from puppet with this
> limitation?
Yes. Like Martin, I would still deploy puppet in this mode: you get
all the management benefits of puppet without having to be root,
albeit with a more limited set of things you can manage. Having it
make sure your application is right, and all the dependencies are
there, is still a big win. :)
Regards,
Daniel
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